Version History

Version 1.0d45: Not Released Yet

• hooked up the "re-link files", and "reinterpet names" from the menu (they're also available from the context menu)
• Fixed "File->Export->Original Playlist Files..." so that it only exports either the zip or the MP3+CDG. Used to be, it *could* have exported Zip, MP3, CDG, PCM and cached CDG for each song, which i'm sure is not what you wanted.
• when "Adding to Library" Audio+CDG files, i now support WAV+G & AIFF+G
• new: "File->Export->Audio Only..." will extract and export only MP3 files, with canonical name (album-track - artist - song.mp3)
• hooked the "Duplicate" command up to songs now, so you can select some songs, and hit "duplicate" and guess what happens? Well, they files on the disc really do get duplicated. This is very different from just dragging a song into a playlist twice. When you do that, both playlist items reference the same song (same files). When you duplicate, files on disk are duplicated, a new song is added, and the new playlist item references the new song.
• added pref to not show info messages in the video window (and it works)
• added pref for "auto-cue" and no it is NOT hooked to anything yet. (the QT export prefs also do nothing at this time)
• fixed the crash during the song name interpretation (relating to strchr)
• there was a temporary hang at the end of a long import (add to library) session while all the "clear the LCD window" threads got a chance to fire. now, i don't fire any at all, also speeding up the process.
• added some new name parser templates
• when you manually enter the serial number, it now displays the success window if it works. (saying things are fully functional now)
• you can now use the actual paste menu item when entering the serial number manually
• d44r1 August 24
• Almost completely re-wrote CDG graphics decoder (actually most of Jim's code is now gone). The colors are now "true" CDG colors (was using a palette of 256, now using a palette of 4096, so you'll see better color fidelity. Keep in mind you can only see 16 of the colors from the palette at any one time, just now the palette has a much larger range)
• no more wiggly graphics when you go full screen, or size the Video window to an odd size (ie: not exactly 2x or something)
• graphics window now erases the area outside the "regular" content area, using the border color (eg: the text showing the song name, if it was very long, would write off the right edge of the screen, then stay there)
• the "About kJams" graphic has been updated to use full color (32 bit, with color cycling, you have to watch it for more than 4 seconds), and now shows the version number, like it should have in the first place.
• fixed a crashing bug if you tried to print your receipt after purchasing (only affects new purchases)
• fixed a crashing bug relating to deleting a playlist while it's still in rename mode
• d44r3 September 8
• the "Get Info" dialog still does not handle Unicode text, BUT!! Now if you enter unicode text directly (turn on the Advanced pref "Allow Name Editing") it will now correctly save (and load!) your unicode text on song Names / Albums / Artists!
• Okay while i was there i decided to go ahead and upgrade all edit dialogs to Unicode (eg: Get Info). Finally, unicode support thru the entire application! Now your song names / artists / albums can contain japanese, chinese, cryllic, hebrew, or whatever characters you want! (there may still be more work to do)
• The Video window, when showing the next song eg: "Play: Song Name" now can show unicode characters, and the text is now anti-aliased much nicerly
• when scrubbing forward in time, i no longer re-render from time zero, i only render from the previous time to the new time, thus speeding things up greatly. (when scrubbing backward, i still must render from time zero, so it's slower)
• i had broken the "click in the full screen video window to un-full screen it" feature. it's back.
• if you brought up Exposé, it would hide the Video window, now it doesn't.
• added a pref to shut off the ability to apply the remembered pitch / tempo for all playlists, only applies when playing a song. (Pitch will always be applied when burning / exporting QuickTime)
• in the log file, when reporting the user's menu choice, i now support international characters
• had broken the ability to play some QuickTime movie types, the last time i said i "fixed" it. Now i really DID fix it. eg: MPEG 4.
• Now, the LCD window uses the sooooper smooth text drawing that also affords tha ability to draw lovely international characters.
• i now show the tasks window when you click the update button, or when you export QuickTime, or when you burn a disc, to let you know something is going on.
• d44r4 September 15
• did a huge ammount of work toward getting the QuickTime Export options actually hooked up. Not there yet.
• fixed a startup crasher for you 10.3.9 stragglers. I had snuck in a 10.4 only call, and it crashed you. Well, i fixed that.
• Worked around a problem with tracks from the publisher "Song Factory". They produce very bad encodings, in the sense that, they're changing the Color Table on every frame they should be doing nothing. (that's 150 Palette changes per second in the worst case) This is a HUGE waste of CPU, and you can feel it if you try to scrub backward from the end of the song. I now detect the situation and skip the extra work.

What My Plan Is

next thing:

• kindof take it easy for a couple more weeks, i'm very rarely getting bug reports, and almost never get email from anyone any more :(
• Full QuickTime Export Options dialog for your CDG files (you can already see i'm working on that in the new preference pane, it's not hooked up yet) (it will be apple scriptable)

after that

• fully customizable columns & instant sorting
• Ability to play ALL quicktime types, even those that "can't be moved / extracted on a background thread"
• ability to burn (pitch bent) audio portion of non-CDG songs (aif, mov, midi, kar etc)
• iTunes integration
• expanded audio encoding options during Rip (AAC, AIF, WAV, Apple Lossless etc)
• 日本翻訳

Pokers In the Fire

• "smooth as glass" quicktime playback, using QTKit
• auto update the Map whenever someone makes a purchase (parse purchase info, geocode for lat/lon, add to address book, update map data, upload map data). Update: I have written a nice applescript that can parse my email and extract a new address book entry, including geocoded lat/lon info. Neat!
• auto-publish when I build a new version and invoke a script (export new vers.html file, zip lite and pro, upload lite and pro, upload vers file). Update: I now have all the parts I need for the workflow, just have to sew it all together now

Bugs I'm aware of that will be fixed

• the album popup may crash under certain situations

To Do

• Problem: NOT dealing with UTF-8 very well. Must replace all std::str with ustring
• Set ID3 tags
• write Zip function so after you rip MP3+G they'll get zipped up together, with a canonical name, enable Zip after rip in the prefs pane
• When editing meta info on Zipped files: unzip files, set ID3 tags, then zip them up again, but leave a copy unzipped so you can get them easily again.
• During import of pre-existing MP3's, scan ID3 tags. Also, write a one-shot utility to both scan for bad zips and also read ID3's from valid zips, and re-canonicalize the names. Move bad zips to a new folder.
• finish CDPedia support
  • 40% done: ability to cue a song to the first non-silent sample, so un-pausing means instant-on
  • 20% done: ability to cue two songs for cross fade (same as: ability to export QuickTime (or iPod) at the same time as playing some other song)
• Allow a 'placeholder' track to be input into a singer's "Tonight" list, that includes the disc name and track number, and when it comes up, the dialog comes up, says "stick in the disc", to let it play direct from disc, automatically picking the right track. Alternately, allow KJ to drag a track from a CD into a playlist. then, eject disc. when that song is coming up next, put up a dialog that says "please stick that disc back in" and it'll go play it from disc, Alternately, rip the song when it gets drug from the CD into the singer's "Tonight"

Previous Versions

• d44
• d42 - d43
• d40 - d41
• d36 - d39
• d25 - d35
• d11 - d24
• d1 - d10